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At
the beginning there were cabinets of curiosity, those of the apothecaries
and those of the emperors, those of the ship owners, those of the
Jesuit fathers - unusual collections, unexpected encounters, organized
disorders in the name of universal enlightement.
In the last century, the great Joseph Cornell dramatized the magic of
his dreams in the limited space of boxes. The Surrealists (André
Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Man Ray…) translated their
most beautiful moments of automatic writing and their reveries into the
three dimensions of boxes...
The art of the box is entirely intuitive, it is subject to the mood
of the moment, the whim of the unconscious, the resurgence of myths.
A dream in broad daylight. Without rhyme or reason. But of an absolute
coherence. Thus the title of each box given without the shadow of a
hesitation.
My friends are poets, writers, painters, sculptors…my own way of
telling stories is to narrate them in boxes as if they were played against
theater or opera sets into which the spectator then discovers his own
dreams.
Marie-Claude de Brunhoff
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